How to use verb GET with WebClient request?

Question

How might I change the verb of a WebClient request? It seems to only allow/default to POST, even in the case of DownloadString.

        try         {             WebClient client = new WebClient();                            client.QueryString.Add("apiKey", TRANSCODE_KEY);             client.QueryString.Add("taskId", taskId);             string response = client.DownloadString(TRANSCODE_URI + "task");                             result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, dynamic>>(response);         }         catch (Exception ex )         {             result = null;             error = ex.Message + " " + ex.InnerException;         } 

And Fiddler says:

POST http://someservice?apikey=20130701-234126753-X7384&taskId=20130701-234126753-258877330210884 HTTP/1.1 Content-Length: 0 

Answer 1

If you use HttpWebRequest instead you would get more control of the call. You can change the REST verb by the Method property (default is GET)

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(HostURI); request.Method = "GET"; String test = String.Empty; using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()) {     Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();     StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);     test = reader.ReadToEnd();     reader.Close();     dataStream.Close();  }  DeserializeObject(test ...) 

Answer 2

Not sure if you can use WebClient for that. But why not use HttpClient.GetAsync Method (String) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh158944.aspx